The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-02-05
srArE NEWS AND VIEWS.

STATE NEWS AND VIEWS
Donaldsonville has skating
rink.
T Our esteemed confrere, the weekly
I0lcn- Talk, of Alexandria, La, will
obIige the 81. CHARLEs HERALD, by
not crediting its extracts to the st.
Mary Herald.
We welcome our affable friend,
Il. j. Flanner. Esq, OF Natchitoches,
La, to the field of journalism, as he
has purchased that sterling weekly,
the Democratic Reuie1c. He will be,
doubtless, successful in the use of
the tripod aud skiliful management
of the cart preservative of all arts"
The Creole population of New Or
loans and of the State have a new
organ to voice their sentiments in
Trait d UniOn,a late journalistic ven
ture in which such prominent news
paper men as Andre l.. Roman,
John Augustin, Lamar Quintero, j..
Emile Rivoiro, Alcee Fol- tier and
others are interested. The under
taking merits the success of its pro-
IjectOrs.
| Chas.H. Walkers Belleview sugar
plantation, situated on both sides
of the Bayou Teche at Irish Bend,
was sold by the Sheriff Of st. Mary
parish on last Saturday, fol
$4,000 cash. This plantation is the
largest in the Attakapas country
having about6 5000 acres of land, in
connection with which there is &
first-class mill and refinery with al
the modern improvements. Mr.. L
j. McLaury, of Chicago, was thu
purchaser [Sugar-Bowl.
The Baton Rouge Truth calls attention t.
the fact that parties conducting two separate
, business must pay tax. on each, ard tina
drumners for firms which pay no license t
the State are subject to tax, AMI adds:
' Ii all sheriffs in the State would examin
8 tho law and cOnstrue the new revenue act L
conjunction with the decisions OF til
S Supreme Court in the above cases, they woul
find that they are required to collect "a !lcens
u from certain class Of commercial agents,an
by doing they would save thousands G
dollars OF revenue to the State that is nov
"A being lost 1t would be well for every tn
y collector TO make note Of this.
o Nearly every paper that comes to us speai,
e hopefully. and points out that louisiana
u already feeling the boom now sweeping Owe
=, the South. A North Louisiana paper, til
q Bicnville Adp6nce, calls attention to the ta'
i that the books of the United States Ian
Office reveal the fact that many thousan
Il dollars are being invested every week In Ian
in that section by Northern capitalists Ill
g latter are buying for the purpose of utilizin
and developing these lands either by cuttin
the timber and manufacturing it into lumb'
or by cultivating it. The inquiries now BEN
daily received by citizens Of the State as
It the climate, quality Of land, resources, etc
I, show that there are capitalists, farmers an
= workingmen in the North DESTROYS OF inves
d ing their money and making their homes
n Louisiana. --ITimes-Democrat.
n President Johnston, of Tulane Universit
has purchased the property corner OF Can
and Delord streets iOr the purpose of esta
he fishing college for girls The fine buildil
estate was. until recently, occupied by Il
re Harmony Club. Tho price of the proper
III was 49,, 900, 1t has II front of 1870 feet
I. Camp street and depth somewhat create
w IL will be recalled that sometime ago
is wealthy lady of New York, formerly a re
III dent OF New Orleans, donated to Tulane III
ava versity the sum of 100000 to be devoted
u; the purpose Of founding girls college. G,
a johnson is now taking steps to carry out
a wishes OF this benevolent lady. He will pr
III pare IL report en- the organization of this ns
II. tuition to be submitted to the board OF
ot university, and upon its adoption, the cole
" will be put into 0peratiOn.-l Pioayune.
! Mr.. Grady,the Atlanta journals
~ in his speech before the New En-
n land society at New York, max
of quite a strange allusion to Il
wrongs Of the negro: "Rutiians ha
-, maltreated him, raScals have mislt
al him and philanthropists ha
established bank for him." I!
new South has finally reclaimed hi
from the raScals, rutiians al
philanthropistS; but he may nev
IDS reclaim all the money which t
latter persuaded him to deposit
he the notorious Freedman's SaVin
go Bank of which President ClevelaI
spoke il his message and recoI
ere mended Congress to make an app
So. priation sufficient to reimburse
poor, swindled, ignorant blacks o
Der of their justly hard earned none
'"n list. Mary Herald.